Red hexagon on your snack pack: What FSSAI’s new proposed warning label means | Explained

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), in an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on August 28, has proposed that…

New senior citizens’ welfare department takes shape in Keralam

The UDF government’s first Budget allocated ₹10 crore to support a range of welfare initiatives for the State’s rapidly ageing population.

UN charts course to manage global warming-limit breach

UNEP’s detailed 'overshoot, peak and decline' pathway seeks to hold the peak as low as possible and then bring temperatures back down below…

Why have people fallen sick after Chloroquine administration in Andhra Pradesh | Explained

Fatal incident in Andhra Pradesh’s Polavaram district raises questions about the safe administration of Chloroquine, a commonly used malaria treatment, as a seven-year-old…

ICMR-NIN study shows Vitamin D3 outperforms D2 in supporting muscles and heart

ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN), Hyderabad, researchers have found that vitamin D3 is more effective than vitamin D2 in maintaining and restoring muscle…

GLP-1 weight loss drugs effective even at low starter doses

The GLP-1 drugs semaglutide, sold as Ozempic and Wegovy by Novo Nordisk, and Eli Lilly's tirzepatide, sold under ‌the brand names Mounjaro and…

Keeping cool saves thousands of lives yearly, but at a cost of worsening global warming, experts say

A new study highlights the life-saving role of air conditioning

Ebola death toll passes 3,000 in DR Congo: official data

The World Health Organization has in the meantime recommended the implementation of a phase three clinical trial using the Ervebo vaccine deployed against…

Mental health must anchor public health

If India is to become a truly developed nation by 2047, mental health must move from the margins of public policy to its…

Prashanth Fertility launches home-based IVF support services in Chennai

Prashanth Fertility launched ‘Prashanth Fertility at Home’, an initiative to provide select IVF-related support services at patients’ homes across Chennai. The service is…

All you need to know about: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) 

CLL is sometimes discovered by chance during a regular blood check, in particular if lymphocyte counts are abnormally high

Patient carried on makeshift bamboo stretcher to hospital in Keralam’s Edamalakkudy; fourth incident in a month

40-year-old woman suffering from high fever carried over 7 km through dense forests as lack of proper roads and bridges continues to severely…

Key posts at govt. medical institutions across T.N. vacant or held by personnel given additional-charge, say doctors

Doctors say this is impeding administrative functioning and affecting timely decision-making relating to patient care

How IITs and IISc are redefining medical education in India

A technical institute’s medical degree will only be distinct if its curriculum, admissions, and thesis requirements are deliberately built around that engineering core

Why was a ‘peptide party’ banned in Bengaluru? | Explained

The event was called off after doctors raised red flags about the unsupervised distribution of medical compounds, saying this would pose serious risks…
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